Hunt For Herbs;; Shizu And Fluffy;; Job

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It seemed the members of Golden Pheonix were fond of walking up to the spot where she normally laid, the front desk of the hotel, and asking her to come with them on low-rank missions. At first, the feline had been unsure what to think of being treated in such a manner considering she knew something about herself which they would likely never know, the fact she had not been born like this. Yet she chose to live as a normal cat these days and thus she decided in the end that she could not be mad when people treated her as such an individual, regarded her as a common animal or pet to occasionally take on a walk or such. Today the one taking her out though, it made her feel different than the ones who normally took her on jobs with them. Everyone else? Was older than she had been when she was human, but the person taking her along for the ride today was younger than her by several years, visually a child. Fluffy had been slightly apprehensive to follow, but clearly, she had tagged along in the end.

How was she supposed to behave around Shizuka? It confused the feline somewhat as she walked on the ground alongside the little girl, recalling that if she had a human body then she would be looking down at this child. Was she supposed to become a guardian sort of creature for this girl or keep playing the slightly above the average intelligence adorable ball of fluff she had been behaving as? Fluffy shook the thought off for now, sure she did not have to decide quite yet since this mission was not even dangerous. At the moment she would simply continue behaving as a feline and take it from there, but if she needed to protect the young girl for some reason, Fluffy knew she would likely do so, though she would certainly remain in her cat form. Actually, the girl was not too sure she even had a humaniod form anymore.

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Getting picked up and manhandled by a selection of things in a humanoid shape? Made the young feline slightly uncomfortable still, because she had once looked like 'that' herself, been human before this had been done to her. Getting used to everyone treating her like a cat because they thought she was some common feline, which is what she wanted them to think? Would still take some adjusting to, but Fluffy was certain she could accomplish it as she had already managed to shed the name she had carried when she was a mortal. At this rate convincing herself living as a monster was alright, would be easy, which was a good thing because Fluffy considered herself no better than some common monster at this point. Especially since she had not proven yet capable of retaking a body near humanoid. She offered no protest and simply laid on the little girls head.

Almost all the members of Golden Pheonix so far seemed to wish she could actually speak to them and assume she was fully intelligent when given the slightest chance to believe as such. Yet she really did not want to speak to them and her throat was still sore from the 'screaming' she had done when she had been transformed. "mew" so she made the normal noise of a feline, paw resting on Shizuka's forehead through the girl's bangs. Though she made a note to keep an eye out for the girl's father because if she just went 'mew' to such a person she would clearly be outed as faking the whole 'simple highly intelligent' animal thing.

At the mention of fish, the feline moved to look at the bag, shifting to Shizuka's shoulder and trying to climb down her arm because Fish actually sounded delicious. She could go for some fish, though it did nothing nourishment wise for the kasha.

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Magic caught her attention as she recalled something from a few weeks prior and glanced at her own paw. Baset would not need to teach her 'kitty magic' because she already had hell magic as a kasha, she simply could just control underworld flames. The female kept this close to her chest however and she had only used her powers one time so far. Knowing she could draw things out of the netherworld? Disturbed her.

The funny thing was Fluffy could talk back and the feline was well aware of her own ability to speak. However in the female's mind? Speech was reserved for intelligent humanoid creatures, those outside that who were able to speak should keep their mouths shut because they happened to be monsters. Fluffy hated the idea of corrupting herself by acting like the monster's she had spent time trying to eradicate. Thus she kept this vow of silence most of the time, the only one who had heard her legit speak was Chaoris and right now she had no idea where the god wannabe had gone, but she was going to have to seek him out soon enough because he was the only way she could procure the bodies she needed to eat in order to survive. The thought she would have to eat a human corpse again soon? Made the cat look slightly pale for a few seconds until she shook it off her mind, she did not have to worry about it until she heard rumor of wherever the blood loving man was. the only thing she had to keep on her mind was this job and the fact she had to prevent herself from actually speaking.

'So it's a little girl and a cat who have come to help me, well then." the old man laughed upon seeing the two arrive outside of his hut and Fluffy looked at him sideways slightly from within Shizuka's arms, finally finishing off her fish. Since they had arrived, the feline leaped from the girls arms to look up at the old man and wait for his orders.

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The old man was likely under estimating them as they did happen to be exceptionally young compared to some other mages, and Fluffy did not even really consider herself a mage, she was just tagging along to help the child out on her job, protect her if it was necessary and she was capable. Considering everything? The Kasha did not really care what the old man thought of her, mostly ignoring him even if she was listening for the details of the job that her and the child would be accomplishing.

She laid rather contently on Shizuka's head as the young girl headed back into the forest now that they knew what herbs they would be going after. Even if she hated being handled most of the time because of the conflict it brought? Honestly she could get used to riding around on people, it was convenient and easy! 'Oh I can talk, I'm just not going to' she knew from her encounter's with Chaoris that she was fully capable of speech likely due to the collar she wore, but the feline simply decided she was not going to do so, she had no reason to, not a single desire to make her status as a fully intelligent creature known. However she did not have to speak in order to help the younger female, she could do lots without saying a single word!

"Mew!" she leaped down from her perch atop her partner's head, glancing back at the larger girl flicking her tails sharply. Locating plants was rather the easy task, especially since while she was no herbalist her time with the ghost hunters had given her a basic working knowledge of such things as they did play a role in those activities from time to time. After running along the forest floor a short while, the feline stopped and sniffed the ground before she began digging in the spot she had stopped. Seconds later? She lifted a ginger root from the ground in her mouth, dirt staining her pelt as she padded back over to Shizuka making another cat-like noise.